August 2005

"Something is wrong"

I am a homeowner here in the Highline area for 23 years. I have worked with the local police quite often and now we are being harassed by a local officer.

We all can not live in Normandy Park like this officer. He tagged the vehicle I use to take care of my handicapped mother and her medical needs. My little two-seater car doesn't work.

Now, mind you, I do not mind officers doing their job, but as a taxpayer, I should not be paying an officer's wages to be a meter maid.

special to the times/news

The Normandy Park City Council on Aug.

A North Highline woman, whose son attended special education classes in the Highline district, is running for the Highline School Board.

Susan Goding will oppose Mengstab Tzegai in the November election. Tzegai was appointed to the board last year.

According to Goding, she first enrolled her son in the fifth grade at Hilltop Elementary and home-schooled him in the sixth grade.

To commemorate their 60th birthday the Highline Times gave a gift back to the community by throwing a bonanza of a bash for the local theatre group the Hi-Liners.

Civic and community leaders gathered at the Burien Elks Lodge on Aug. 17 for an experience of dinner theatre and good old fashion socializing. The Hi-Liners performed

three spectacular scenes from their

upcoming production of

West Side Story.

Between scenes Hi-Liner parents and board members advocated the importance of youth theatre in the community.

Hoop camp returns

Applications are now being evaluated for The Ten Star All Star Summer Basketball Camp. The camp is by invitation only. Boys and girls ages 10 - 19 are eligible to apply. Past participants include: Michael Jordan, Tim Duncan, Vince Carter, Jerry Stackhouse, Grant Hill and Antawn Jamison. Players from 50 states and 17 foreign countries attended the 2004 camp. College basketball scholarships are possible for players selected to the All-American Team.

sports CORRESPONDENT

There are always predictions in horse racing by columnists, and, with those educated guesses are also "sure things."

With the 2005 Des Moines Rams Junior Football League teams, there are five divisions but only one team that proves it can surely be a best bet before things are through in 2005.

The Pee Wees division coach, Bennie DeFils, has experienced success with the Rams organization even though every single team took last place last season. Most of the teams were winless in the eight-game campaigns.

SeaTac

Controlled Substance: Aug. 10, S 196th St. and 13th Ave. S. - An officer was doing a routine traffic stop around 12:20 a.m. and in the car was meth, processed ephedrine, and a mobile meth lab

Mental Complaints: Aug. 10, S 170th St. and International Blvd. S. - A naked woman was seen wrapped in a small towel and shouting at passing traffic. She was reported as ranting and raving and was incoherent.

Compiled by Sara Loken

North Highline

Fraud: Aug. 4, 1220 Des Moines Memorial Drive - A fraud warrant was issued at the property. A SWAT team came out and secured the house. The suspect, with meth on him, then tried to assault the officers with a screwdriver. He was arrested.

Narcotics Activity: Aug. 10, 10700 21st Ave. S.W. - A caller reported that just north of her home she suspected her neighbors were selling meth.

Burien

Aggravated Assault: Aug. 14, 12300 Ambaum Blvd. S. - Three roommates were in their apartment around 6 p.m. when they started drinking beer. Later, while two were sleeping, the other roommate strangled one and punched another.

Attempted Fraud: Aug. 14, 12200 21st Ave. S.W. - Around 9-9:15 a.m. a woman answered her phone and the caller stated she was with the Federal Fraud Division and that someone was using the woman's Mastercard and that they needed her credit card number and Social Security number to confirm.

Pick Pocket: Aug. 18, 15700 Ambaum Blvd.

1945 World War II ends

1945 Vance Orchard starts Glendale-Highline Gazette

1948 Jerry Robinson runs White Center News

1949 Seattle Trust & Savings building (now Key Bank) opens

1949 Seattle-Tacoma International Airport opens

1950 Seafair Festival begins

1953 Normandy Park becomes a city

1954 Brown vs. Board of Education

1958 First Miss Burien crowned

1958 Highline Medical Center opened as Burien General Hospital